Published on
10/31/2004 in
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Another interesting ubiquitous game, developed by the Intel research lab in Berkeley which is trying to look at the urban tissue with new tools. Here a game is the opportunity for the players to experiment with the space of their city in a different way.
Digital Street Game is a reinterpretation of traditional street games that uses hybrid digital-physical play to spur exploration of players’ relationships to the city and its inhabitants. The game provides an open-ended platform for research while encouraging creative expression and collaborative play. As part of the game, players generate documentation and commentary that traces their paths through the game – and the city. Different views of these traces create a prismatic portrait of urban places as mediated through technology use and social relationships. The game becomes a methodological experiment in producing a rich environment for community engagement and social research.
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Yesterday, I dig a bit and I found something from my past. It was an image of “il Tenerone”, a comic character played by Gianfranco D’Angelo in the ’80s in the revolutionary Italian TV show Drive-in.
Its amazing like something so close in the past it is so fast in becoming part of a culture. Drive-in was a slam against the previous TV attitude in Italy: it was showing semi-naked women, cabaret style of sequences and above all it was introducing something never seen before in TV: idiocy. Since then it was a “crescendo” of stupidity and lack of sense.
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10/31/2004 in
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Spent some time adding a page of description for the CRAFT Semester projects.
All the students interested in working with our team are welcome.
Today is a very important date for Europe. I am very happy that this event is taking place in Rome. I hope that all the members of Europe will ratify the text of the constitution.
Costituzione europea:
Il testo del Trattato costituzionale europeo unifica in un documento organico tutti i precedenti trattati, da quelli più lontani di Roma del 1957 fino ai più recenti di Maastricht e Nizza. La Costituzione europea dovrà essere ratificata da tutti i 25 Paesi membri dell’Unione: alcuni Stati lo faranno per via parlamentare, altri con referendum popolari. La Costituzione, una volta ratificata da tutti gli Stati, entrerà in vigore a partire dal 2009, per alcuni aspetti, e dal 2014 per altri. Fino a quel momento l’Unione europea continuerà a funzionare come oggi, con i Trattati in vigore.
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10/28/2004 in
Diary.
1. Does providing the message receiver with emission information, i.e., the history of locations, enable the receiver to infer more effectively the meaning of the message?
a) By which cognitive processes this happen?
b) Does it lead to more economical communication?
c) What is the relation between inference and social meaning? What is the connection between a successful inference and the meaning assigned by the group to the place connected with that inference?
2. How can we build a computational model of a message context, namely the emitter/receiver location history?
a) How does it articulate the semantic description of the message content?
b) Is this able to maximise contextual spatial cues through providing this semantic description of the ‘spatialised’ communication between peers?
Published on
10/28/2004 in
Diary.
Today I found this interesting link on the inference of meaning. It may be an excellent starting point for developing an understanding of how people exchange contents. Particularly, I was interested in the approach of the author, who seems to not rely on my idea of grounded discussion. In fact, he believes that the transfer of meaning can also happen without any feedback on the communication process and particularly using: “signal redundancy paradox based on the inference of meaning and the disambiguation of potential referents through exposure in multiple contexts”. I still have to understand what it means but it sounds cool.
Andrew D.M. Smith’s PhD Thesis: Evolving Communication through the
Inference of Meaning:
In this thesis, I address the problem of how successful communication systems can emerge between agents who do not have innate or explicitly transferable meanings, cannot read the minds of their interlocutors, and are not provided with any feedback about the communication process. I develop a solution by focusing on the role of meanings within the framework of language evolution, and on communication through the repeated inference of meaning.
Published on
10/27/2004 in
Diary.
After a wile I decided to make public the proposal I have develop some time ago around the idea of MapTribe or the collaborative annotation of maps.
Here is the link:
http://www.i-cherubini.it/mauro/projects/MapTribe/
Feel free to drop me a line if you find in this old description something useful.
Nice shot by Naomi Klein on the interests of the Carlyle group and on the american state ex-secretary James Baker. The special report described the project, elaborated by Carlyle and others, to create a consortium for recovering the money that the ex-regime had developed with other countries, particularly Kuwait. Funny enough, James Baker is a senior member of Carlyle and -at the same time- was asked by George W. Bush to deal with the debts Iraq had with foreign countries.
“Baker is on two sides of this transaction: he is supposed to be representing the interests of the US, but he is also a senior counsellor at Carlyle, and Carlyle wants to get paid to help Kuwait recover its debts from Iraq.”
After this reportage was published on The Nation (USA) Carlyle has announced that is not going to participate by any means in the consortium.
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Published on
10/26/2004 in
Diary.
Nice follow up of the discussion initiated on why people should geo annotate a place. Some more threads here and here. I would argue that people will do that because they want to keep contact within their small group of peers, to collaboratively solving tasks, to catching up, to be connected in a different way.
Of course, every one of these activities is influenced by our egocentrism, our need to show off our personality and our ideas. Like blogs.
Other reasons for using such kind of communication can be represented by solving collaboratively tasks problems. I.E., I have to buy food but I am lazy, Mike is coming to my place but I can see he is going to be in the grocery in an hour. Therefore I attach a note to the grocery for him, asking him to buy me some stuff.
This is the kind of approach suggested here: The Neighbor Community Project.
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10/26/2004 in
Books.
N. Smith & D. Wilson (eds.) Mutual Knowledge. Academic Press. 1982
Interesting Internet site which aggregates lots of interesting resources about SVG and their usage.
KevLinDev – Home:
KevLinDev is the creative outlet for Kevin Lindsey. The site came into existence in July of 2000 with initial focus on SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics), a vector markup language being defined by the W3C. Today, KevLinDev is a collection of whatever I happened to be interested in at the time. You will see examples ranging from simple animations to graphics drawing primitives to parsing to object-oriented programming.
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10/26/2004 in
Diary.
Interesting link, via Anne Galloway, about “Constructivist Compositionals”. I am always interested in these sorts of project where the approach is not to offer a finite number of ‘moves’ or predefined paths. I must admit that three years talking about constructionism and Papert’s theories profoundly changed my perspectives on what interactivity, HCI, and learning are.
From Bearskinrug Compositionals: What’s the story with all this?:
What I find most interesting about the Compositionals are their collaborative nature. I create single compositions of my own; yet the added interactivity allows others to discover inumerable compositions residing within their dynamic structure.
Interesting art piece, realised by Jota Castro of Peru, entitled “B.B.B. Oil Shame II” on display at the Frieze Art Fair in London’s Regent’s Park on October 14, 2004. It represents British Prime Minister Tony Blair (L), US President George Bush (C) and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (R), hiding in oil barrels.
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Published on
10/25/2004 in
Diary.
Sometimes napkins ideas can be extra powerful!!!
Initial design of the telephone as shown in Alexander Graham Bell’s preliminary sketch. (Courtesy of The Library of Congress.)
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10/25/2004 in
Diary.
Nice post on Nico’s WP blog on the reason why people will geo-annotate physical place. The author, Jason Tester, describe a possible categorization for these annotations. First of all he divide these contributions in two big groups:
- I was here (the author wants the receiver to know s/he was there)
- You are here (the author has some information useful for the receiver for the receiver in that location).
The former is for the author more emotionally driven, although they are still meant for other people, and for the receiver the value will be to participate in someone else’s unrecorded history of a place.
The latter can offer more utility to the viewer and the emitter, and can span into several categories:
- announcements
- events
- tips/assistance/warnings
- lost&found
- temporary notes
- gaming
- none of the above
In a previous post I sketched one categorization we did during a spatial brainstorming:
recommending system (good/bad), help, threaded discussion, wiki-like (to reach a consensus), reminder system, spam/virus/breakdown, I’m late, anchors (like rave party system), synchronous/asychronous use, query (anybody wants to paly tennis here?), crowd scenario…
Many different criteria may apply to define a proper categorization. The question is then: Can we find a criteria that is based on the collaborative activity running between the emitter and the receiver rather than on the content of the message? Is this kind of criteria going to be more universal?
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